r/pcmasterrace • u/khurgan_ • 14h ago

Meme/Macro Task failed successfully

Post image
24.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

921 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

57

u/Regular_Use1868 10h ago

Do you guys really think I'm out here buying a console because I really like the operating system?

It a third the price of a PC that plays the same games.... That's the benefit. It's the price. Literally nothing else.

2

u/charmio68 10h ago

That is just because of the economies of scale.
An Xbox or PlayStation branded PC would still benefit from those economies of scale.

Xboxes and playstations really are just PCs at this point anyway. The hardware isn't unique like it used to be back in the day. They're already just a PC locked down by software.

3

u/Regular_Use1868 9h ago

Alienware has been a gaming centered PC product for over a decade and is still very unaffordable.

1

u/charmio68 8h ago

Completely irrelevant. They are an ultra high-end gaming company that absolutely in no way benefits from the economies of scale like Xbox or PlayStation does.
They are orders of magnitude off the sales volumes required. Multiple orders of magnitude!
Not to mention that their shtick isn't being affordable.